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The most ______ you have ever encountered in a computer language.

I thought I'd start a little conversation about various programming languages we have used and mention some extremes associated with them. I'll start off with mine:

Language: DragonSpeak
Extreme: Slowest-running Loop

Language: DragonSpeak
Extreme: Most coding for a loop.

Speed: One iteration per second. That's not a typo, not a missed word, but how you do loops in DragonSpeak.

Code:

(0:3) When somebody moves into object type #66,
(1:194) and timer #1 is not still counting down,
(5:300) set variable #%Count to the value #0.
(5:50) set countdown timer #1 to go off in #1 seconds.
(5:41) place object type #497 at (#12,13).
(0:50) When countdown timer #1 goes off,
(1:202) and variable #%Count is less than #10,
(5:50) set countdown timer #1 to go off in #1 seconds.
(5:302) take variable #%Count and add #1 to it.
(5:301) copy the value of variable #%Count into variable #%ShowObject.
(5:302) take variable #%ShowObject and add #497 to it.
(5:41) place object type #%ShowObject at (#12,13).

Strip out the the unnecessary text (which basically describes what the line does) and you get:

Object type #66 is the post in the picture, and the %ShowObject numbers display the numbers in yellow triangle, which are objects type 497 - 507. The basic loop code (subtracting the lines that display the numbers) takes up eight lines.